News & Insight

24 May 2012

Last week the society held the first in a series of seminars with the Social Liberal Forum, which will aim to explore overlap and common ground in the political ideas of Labour and the Liberal Democrats. The series aims to...

23 May 2012

America shows that austerity cramps growth, stimulus aids it. The potential of the UK labour market depends on strategic investment. The most valuable economic asset any country has is its people. And when those people are squeezed by circumstance, policymakers need to ask...

22 May 2012

Women in science and technology have to work hard to ignore sexist pigeonholing. This government needs to acknowledge that talent is diverse, from education and onwards. Much has been made of the importance of innovation through science and technology as a means...

21 May 2012

“Austerity is not a foregone conclusion”. In this phrase we are reminded that almost everything in politics, from the sort of economy we have, the nature of our democracy to the quality of our public services are not foregone conclusions....

18 May 2012

Dianne Hayter, General Secretary of the Fabian Society between 1976 and 1982 was this week appointed as Labour’s House of Lords spokesperson on the Cabinet Office. Here, Baroness Hayter shares her recollections of a difficult time in the history of...

18 May 2012

For those of us who are passionate about democratic participation, the recent turnout in the London elections was disappointing. At 38%, turnout was marginally better than in 2004, but significantly less than the level of 45% reached in 2008. Of course,...